Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-02

among the notable after-dinner speak
ers OF New York.
Taking the next military-man
happen to meet there is Emil Schalk,
of the Consolidated Exchange. He was
on General McClellans staff in the civil
war and published five books, one en-
titled IheArt of War;" written espe-
cially for the volunteer service, and
another, "The Campaign of 1925. "
which made him widely knswn as a
military author. He is n German from
Mentz. on the Rhine, and was educated
as n civil engineer at the Ecole Cen,
trale. of Paris. He has organized we.
raj exchanges, and has made a fortune
in petroleum.
John II. Inman, the cotton and rail
road millionaire. was soldier in the
Confederate army, but has a West
Point stride as he goes through Wall
street. he is natural soldier, al
though he never held any rank.
GENERAL THOMAS NJ. LOGAN,
who is so prominent in the railroad
world. is often seen in Wall street. He
is n Cbarlestonian, forty-fve years OF
age, was a brigadier-general in the
Confederate army at twenty-five, prac-
ticcd law in Richmond after the war.
driited into railroad enterprises, and is
now wealthy. he is president of the
Vir inia Midland road and yice-presi-
dent Of several roads in the Richmond
and Danville system. He is a graduate
Of the University of South Carolina.
ard is at once gentleman and finan-
cicr-two terms not necessarily synony-
nous.
A handsome man, slightly under the
medium height, with bushy side-whis.
kcIs and keen and rather sinister gray
eyes, is one of the familiar figures of
Wall street see him coming out of
the Stock Exchange or entering the
Office Of Drexel, Morgan & Co., or 60
ing into The Mills building, possibly to
consult with Henry Willard about rail
road elections in the Northwest.
BRAYToN IVES.
It is Biayton Ives. Few, even in
Wall street, know that he has mill
tary career. They only remember that
Elijah Smith has checkmated him in
ONE railroad schemes in the far North
west !; that he has, nevertheless, met
with a considerable degree OF success
in Wall street, and is wealthy. He was
recently reelected a director in the
Northern Pacific railroad. He entered
the Union army as an adjutant when
only twenty years Of age, became q
captain of infantry, a major, and
at twenty-five or twenty-three COM
manded a cavalry regiment under
General Sheridan, attaining the full
rank OF colonel at twenty-four and ulti-
mately becoming a brevet brigadier-
general on the recommendation Of the
hero of Winchester General Ives
served all Though the war and was
mustered ont in 1864. He came from
Connecticut, the land of wooden oats,
hams, and nutmegs, and is graduate
Of Yale. ] refer to him partly because
Of his successful financial career and
lMtly because he possesses an ex-
c,phonally fine library of five
or SIX thousand volumes. 1t in
cludes the Gutenberg Bible, the
fist printed book, which goes back TO
about 400 the fourth book with a
date, l4C0, Latin lexicon; the Cicero
dc Ofiiclis, bearing date of 1850; the
first arithmetic ever printed, the first
Erclid, Had, Odyssey, Virgil, ST. Au-
justine; Caesar and Plutarch. the Penn
broke Missal or manuscript book
Of prayers on vellum made about
1870 for the first Earl of Pembroke aud
iorvhich it's said he hasrefused $40, coo.
not TO mention other rare works. Gen
oral Ives makes a specially OF the
earliestvolumes printed in the fifteenth
century, and of books relating to the
early history of this country He was
associated with General Grant and the
famous William Il. Travers as a director
in one of the big banks of this city,
reads Latin, Greek, and French, and is
a member of the leading clubs of New
York
There are others equally worthy of |
note who have had military career
and have also made their mark in the |
monetary world, and the foregoing |
names are merely taken at random. |
They seem to give color to the theory
that military life, so far from unfit
ting man for business, is really to a
greater or less extent an advantage.
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
The State Democratic Convention is
remarkable as being the only one held
in ten years in which the Democracy of
New York city were not endeavoring to
scalp each other instead of trying to
aid the party.
They were brought into harmony by
the force of circumstances last fall. The
George party had sprung into exist
ence in n night and threatened to over
whelm both Iammany and the County
Democracy. Had these factions been
divided the vote showed that George
would certainly have been elected
mayor of this city.
1ammany, who appeared at the
National Democratic Convention of
1850, after defeating the Democratic
for Governor and who de-
feated the Democratic candidate for
President that year by sulking in its
tents, was the first to offer the olive
branch. 1t nominated Abram S. Hewitt
for mayor, despite the fact that he was
a chieftain of the County Democracy
and that he had dealt Tammany some
Of its hardest blows
His nomination was made by Rich
ard Croker, the Tammany leader. who
bad proved himself a warm personal
friend to Hewitt years before when
Hewitt needed political friends. Hewitt
bad returned his kindness by securing
Croker a place among the fire. com
missiOneTs. Croker felt justified in
again beiriending Hewitt as no politi-
clan in New York city was ever before
befriended. Hewitt needed political
friends just then. He had fallen out
with the Administration and Croker's
medicine recuperated him. The Coun-
" Democracy, under the guidance of a
nan fully as big Drained as Croker,
promptly accepted the olive branch.
Hewitt became the candidate of a
united city Democracy for the first
line in quarter of century and was
elected.
Whether he has given satisfaction to
,ither wing of the party or not, the
inioD of both wings holds good. The
eaders see that in harmony only is
here strength. For a year past there
las been no quarrel among them con-
erniDg either the municipal or the
federal patronage. Tammany, whose
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